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New Mexico
0.5 mi
Distance
139 ft
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Inside Santa Fe National Forest
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Kwage Mesa Utility Road
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Kwage Mesa Utility Road is a short, easy walk across the mesa terrain of northwestern New Mexico. This brief trail follows a utility access road with gentle elevation gain, making it ideal for a quick outing or warm-up hike. The route offers straightforward walking with minimal technical difficulty and expansive views typical of the high desert plateau landscape.
Intro Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 0
~4 min drive
Tsankawi is part of the ancestral lands of the modern pueblo of San Ildefonso. Using the soft volcanic rock to construct houses and the flat open lands between mesas for farming, Ancestral Pueblo people called this place home in the 1400’s and 1500’s. Life was not easy on th…
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More Than History Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 1
~4 min drive
No Pueblo people live at Tsankawi today. However, this place still contains tangible and intangible connections with the past for the descendants of the people who once occupied these canyons and mesas. A petroglyph (image etched into rock) carved into the soft stone walls o…
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Carved Trail Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 16
~4 min drive
From this point forward, you will be walking in a trail carved into the volcanic tuff. The rock is very soft and malleable. It is very important to stay on the trail. In just a very short time, our shoes can do more damage than many years of erosion. Thank you for helping…
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